FED-UP residents fear their estate will become a dumping ground after the only place to leave their rubbish was taken away.

People living on the Aldersbrook Estate in Wanstead pay their council tax to Redbridge Council, which collects their rubbish, but their communal bins are provided by the estate's landlord, Newham Council.

Newham had also provided a skip where residents on part of the estate threw their rubbish for 45 years, but took this away without warning.

People are now leaving bags of rubbish outside the front doors of their flats or where the skip used to be.

Brading Crescent resident Michael Barouchos, 48, said: “We have become the dumping ground of Wanstead.

“Numbers 71 to 110 have no bins, so they are putting their rubbish out in the street and it's all over the estate.”

He added that shops had dumped their old fittings where the skip used to be and people from outside the estate were also fly-tipping there.

“They put CCTV cameras up last week and it's stopped for a bit, but I think it's going to start again. They've got used to this place and nobody has been prosecuted.”

He voiced his concerns at the council's Area One meeting last night (Monday).

Ward councillor for Wanstead Michelle Dunn said Redbridge Council had paid for CCTV cameras to catch people dumping on the estate, but it was up to Newham Council to prosecute.

“I feel we as Redbridge Council have done quite a lot and we have put three bins on the estate,” she added. “We have done a lot from our end, but we also need Newham to do their bit.”

But the chairwoman of the Aldersbrook Voice residents' association, Shanell Johnson, 28, said both councils were responsible for the mess.

“There needs to be clarification as to where waste is meant to go,” she added. “I was walking around the estate and people were putting rubbish where the old skip was.

“Redbridge should be giving a better rubbish collection service.”

Brading Crescent resident Sedat Ayan, 52, who was also at the council meeting, said: “One council is throwing the ball to the other one and the other one is throwing the ball back.

“We're paying our council taxes and waiting for something to be done about it. There is a mountain of rubbish here, especially at weekends.”

A Newham Council spokeswoman said: "When we're made aware of fly-tipping, we will be prosecuting people.

"There are bins at the property provided by Redbridge Council.

"The reason the skip has been removed was because it added to the fly-tipping in that area and added to vermin."